Word: outweighing
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...price of defeat, which may in the long run outweigh the benefit of the tax, was the final removal of what have long been thorns in the industry's side--the size and weight restrictions on the interstate highway system. In 1956, Congress limited combined tractor and trailer weights to 73.280 lbs, and widths to 96 inches. Given that the average interstate is designed for weights of 60,000 lbs., the limit erred on the side of generosity--generosity doubtless matching the largesse of the industry lobbyists...
Richard F. Black '77, another fourth-year student, had a harder time deciding to come to Harvard. He cites financial disadvantages such as increased tuition and decreased productivity, but concludes. "I decided, as did my classmates, that the benefits would probably outweigh the cost...
Despite all the potential pitfalls of a sharp oil-price decline, many energy ex perts feel certain that the benefits would far outweigh the risks. Says John Sawhill, Deputy Secretary of Energy under President Carter: "The soaring OPEC prices were in effect an excise tax on the world economy. A drop would be precisely the reverse - an enormous shot in the arm." Agrees Walter Heller, chief economic ad viser to President Kennedy: "The eco nomic tonic would be worldwide. If best comes to best, and we see $20 to $25 oil again, we could use part of the economic bonanza...
...experiments potential benefits to cancer research outweigh the potential dangers of the project, which uses recombinant DNA techniques to introduce diphtheria-producing genes into E colt bacteria...
Many critics question Reagan's assertions of Soviet nuclear superiority, believe the disadvantages of MX deployment outweigh the benefits, and have grave doubts about the feasibility of the Dense Pack basing mode (see following stories). It is roughly the 30th option considered by the Air Force, which long favored the "racetrack" system supported in 1979 by President Carter. This involved shuttling 200 MX missiles on flatbed trailers among 4,600 shelters in Utah and Nevada. That $34 billion plan was buried under a barrage of environmental and political opposition, including that of Presidential Candidate Reagan...